History VideoGame / SPYFox

* WastedSong: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crf9q-lBelo#t=55s Chase Scene a Go-Go!]]" is surprisingly much longer than what is actually heard in-game. Thankfully, the whole theme gets played in ''Cheese Chase''.

''SPYFox'' is a series of point-and-click children's games made by HumongousEntertainment, which was later bought by {{Atari}}. The series spans three {{Adventure Game}}s and two arcade-style shooter {{Gaiden Game}}s.

The series follows unflappable superspy SPY Fox on his adventures, most of which involve stopping some kind of evil mastermind from conquering the world in one way or another. The series is an AffectionateParody of spy films in general and JamesBond movies in particular, many of which are surprisingly in-depth.

* ''SPY Fox in Dry Cereal'' ([[FanNickname often referred to as]] ''SPY Fox [[{{Retronym}} 1]]'')
* ''SPY Fox 2: Some Assembly Required''
* ''SPY Fox: Operation Ozone'' ([[FanNickname often referred to as]] ''SPY Fox 3'')

The {{Gaiden Game}}s, in order, are:
* ''SPY Fox in Cheese Chase''
* ''SPY Fox in Hold the Mustard''

In ''SPY Fox in Dry Cereal'', William the Kid has kidnapped all the dairy cows in the world and hidden a Milky Weapon of Destruction on the Greek island of Acidophilus. SPY Fox travels to Acidophilus in order to disarm Kid's Weapon and free the cows.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: See what S.M.E.L.L.Y. stands for below. Also, Russian Blue's crimes include "jay-tangoing" and "tangoing out of season."

** Using Madame Ladybug and Victor's talk balloons (which are normally only obtainable in the flytrap path) on Elmo (who only appears in the regenerator path) triggers Elmo's DummiedOut responses.

* FunWithAcronyms: The M.E.S.S. (Multiple Environment SPY Ship), as well as SPY Corps' nemeses N.O.G. (Nectar Of the Goats) and S.M.E.L.L.Y. (Society of Meaningless, Evil, Larceny, Lying and Yelling).

* LogoJoke: For some reason, ''Cheese Chase'' has a different intro to the HumongousEntertainment logo at the beginning of the game.
* MadLibsDialogue

* MisguidedMissile: In ''Dry Cereal'', after putting the fuses together, the missile flies off, and we hear SPY Fox say, "I guess that guided missile was misguided." Then it flies back, crashing into the door, and then he says "of course, I planned that. I like a dramatic pause."

* ShoePhone: ''Every'' single gadget is this.

* WorldOfPun

** Mr. Udderly lifts a line straight from ''The Ghost and Mr. Chicken'': "My whole body's a weapon." It helps that Udderly sounds exactly like DonKnotts.

* GadgetWatches: Complete with communicator and a different arcade shooter minigame for each entry in the series. Doubles as PaintingTheFourthWall, as it's where you save and load your game.

* MarathonLevel: ''Hold the Mustard'' has a reputation for being full of these, sans the boss levels mentioned above. They are about 4 to 5 minutes early on, and for a game with 101 levels, that is outrageous. [[ItGotWorse Then you get to the ones with double the amount of enemies.]]

* MarathonLevel: ''Hold the Mustard'' has a reputation for being full of these, sans the [[BossDissonance boss levels]] mentioned above. They are about 4 to 5 minutes early on, and for a game with 101 levels, that is outrageous. [[ItGotWorse Then you get to the ones with double the amount of enemies.]]

* BossDissonance: The bosses in ''Hold the Mustard'' are all about a fifth of the length of the normal levels, and all it takes to beat them is to stand in one spot and hit their weak spot, highlighted on the radar. Their only way of attacking is by their robots, but on most of the bosses, you'll end up destroying it before they can even make it to you.

** Artimice J Bigpig is [[AWorldWidePunomenon heavily]] modeled after actor Sydney Greenstreet, and his voice actor even says "Gad!" like Greenstreet's character in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''.

* AWorldWidePunomenon

* BigBad: William the Kid in ''Dry Cereal'', Napoleon [=LeRoach=] in ''Some Assembly Required'' and the ComicBookAdaptation ''[[http://www.davewindett.com/various/fox.html SPY Fox]]'', King Konglomerate in ''Hold the Mustard'', and Poodles Galore in ''Operation Ozone''.

* BossDissonance: The bosses in ''Hold the Mustard'' are all about a fifth of the length of the normal levels, and all it takes to beat them is to stand in one spot and hit their weak spot, highlighted on the radar. Their only way of attacking is by their robots, but on most of the bosses, you'll end up destroying it before they can even make it to you.

-->'''Spy Fox''': (quite sarcastically) Why thank you. How gracious of you. (BreakingTheFourthWall) What a weasel.

** In Dry Cereal, the cutscene where three mooks eye a recently dropped coin is reminiscent of the three-way duel at the climax of [[TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly The Good, The Bad and The Ugly]].

** Artimice J Bigpig is [[IncrediblyLamePun heavily]] modeled after actor Sydney Greenstreet, and his voice actor even says "Gad!" like Greenstreet's character in ''Film/TheMalteseFalcon''.

* MostCommonCardGame: In ''Dry Cereal'', one mini-game has SPY Fox play a game of Go Fish for trinkets with a big pig, Artemis J. Bigpig, a parody of Kasper Gutman in TheMalteseFalcon.

** Artimice J Bigpig is [[IncrediblyLamePun heavily]] modeled after actor Sydney Greenstreet, and his voice actor even says "Gad!" like Greenstreet's character in [[TheMalteseFalcon The Maltese Falcon]]

** On the non-spy-related references, Captain Drydock's voice characterization in ''Dry Cereal'' is a reference to [[StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Captain Kirk]], right down to his speech about the sea being "the final frontier".

*** Or alternatively, Toodles Galore, Tom's most frequent love interest in TomAndJerry

* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: It's a fox who is a spy.

** To JamesBond especially, amongst others. The ridiculousness of the gadgets is a nod to ''GetSmart''.

** Fox's vocal characterization is ''not'' a shout out to GetSmart. It's Maxwell Smart's voice, coming out of a fox who is not Maxwell Smart, spoken by an actor who also is not Maxwell Smart. Mind: blown.

* PALBonus: ''Operation Ozone'' got [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=moYFebZ-jE0 an additional two songs]]. The Music CD page of the American version's help file mentions "two funky, hip SPY Fox bonus tracks" which were supposed to be available from HumongousEntertainment's website but may never have been available there; these are likely the same two songs.

* BarefootFunnyAnimals

* DeathIsNotPermanent: ''Some Assembly Required'''s DummiedOut cutscene.

* {{Americanitis}}: At least, in comparison to JamesBond, which it parodies.